ICOM6027- E-crimes: digital crime scenes and legal sanctions
Instructors Dr. Kevin Pun ( pun@cs.hku.hk )
Dr. Michael Kwan ( ykkwan@cs.hku.hk )
Teaching assistant Mr. Bernard Ng (legal part)
Syllabus This module helps participants to grapple with crimes in the electronic age from both technical and legal points of view. It addresses three important aspects of the subject, namely, technologies adopted in e-crimes, legal sanctions and management of e-crimes scenes. Topics covered include: trends in e-crimes; different types of e-crimes, tools and technologies for committing e-crimes; laws relating to e-crimes and criminal sanctions; digital forensics, post-incident and live-forensic crime scene management, chain of evidence, collecting and collating digital evidence.
Objectives This module helps participants to grapple with crimes in the electronic age from both technical and legal points of view. It addresses three important aspects of the subject, namely, technologies adopted in e-crimes, legal sanctions and management of e-crimes scenes.
Learning outcomes

On completion of the module, students should be able to

  1. Identify and explain the common crimes committed using or involving the computing technology
  2. Apply the relevant provisions of the laws of Hong Kong to analyse the crimes referred to in 1 above
  3. Demonstrate how to handle and preserve the integrity of digital evidence at the crime scene
  4. Demonstrate ethics and professionalism in handling digital evidence
Prior knowledge expected None
Topics covered
  1. Basics of criminal law
  2. E-crimes in Hong Kong
  3. Law on digital evidence
  4. Basic understanding of digital evidence
  5. Techniques for digital crime scene management
  6. Analysis and reconstruction of digital evidence
Teaching format Ten 3-hour lectures
Assessment
  • In-course assessment (30%)
    • Two written homework assignments
  • One open book examination (70%)
    Date: 13 July 2015 (Mon)
    Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
    Venue: TBA
Course materials

Notes, with pre- and post-course reading lists of online reference materials.
Enrolment No add or drop after 21 May 2015.
Class quota Class size will be maintained at 50.
 
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